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| Cigna profit exceeds expectations; lower costs help | | | (Reuters) - Cigna Corp, which provides U.S. and overseas health insurance as well as disability and life insurance, reported a second-quarter profit that beat expectations on Thursday as medical costs fell and revenue rose. |
| One Direction star turns pro-footballer | | | One Direction have already taken the music world by storm and now Louis Tomlinson is hoping to become a star in the football world after signing a deal with English second division club Doncaster Rovers. |
| Can Esther Duflo eradicate poverty? | | | Poverty and hunger are two plagues of human society that are usually synonymous with each other. Economist, Esther Duflo, is trying to change that old way of thinking about hunger. Foreign Policy magazine has ranked Duflo as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers," for "Poor Economics," a book she co-authored, which says that the impoverished may be suffering from hunger because of where they choose to spend their money. |
| A Days Strike Seeks to Raise Fast-Food Pay | | | From New York to several Midwestern cities, thousands of fast-food workers have been holding one-day strikes during peak mealtimes, drawing attention to their demands for much higher wages. |
| Al Fayed's reign at Fulham ends | | | Mohamed Al Fayed played a major role in cementing Fulham's spot in the Premier League. But now 84, Al Fayed sold the Cottagers to billionaire Shahid Khan to give the league another U.S. owner. |
| Snowden a month in an airport | | | Fugitive Edward Snowden remains in the transit lounge of Russia's Sheremetyevo International Airport -- here's how he might be killing time |
| Government requests for Twitter users' data on the rise | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter is under increasing pressure from governments around the world to release user's private information, with requests rising 40 percent in the first six months of the year, the microblogging company said Wednesday in its semi-annual transparency report. |
| UK playwright Tom Stoppard wins PEN/Pinter prize | | | LONDON (Reuters) - British playwright Tom Stoppard has won the 2013 PEN/Pinter Prize established in memory of the late Nobel laureate and fellow dramatist Harold Pinter, organizers said on Wednesday. |
| Tiny lab under the skin could stop drug cheats | | | July 18 - Amid yet more claims of illegal drug-taking by high-profile athletes, scientists in Switzerland say they may have found a foolproof way to prevent the use of banned substances in sports. They say their chip implant, designed to monitor naturally-occurring substances in the blood, could also be used as a weapon against drug cheats. Jim Drury reports. |
| Well If This Was Your Mother, Doctor | | | A common question helps family members make sense of the confusion, desolation and powerlessness that so often defines the hospital experience, but leaves a newcomer to clinical medicine feeling vulnerable and violated. |
| Children power playground toys | | | July 30 - Modern gaming techniques are taken to the playground as children compete to produce energy. Suzannah Butcher reports. |
| The Hail-Mary-Moon | | | For some couples an 11th-hour trip together can save the relationship or not. Call it a save-cation. |
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